Science Fiction Stories

There were but three days in which to decipher the most cryptic message ever delivered to earth.

No mortal had ever seen the Martians, but they had heard their whisperings--without knowing the terrible secret they kept hidden.

He knew what she was thinking. Once in the very first weeks of the war, before everyone had been evacuated from the surface, they had seen a hospital train discharging the wounded, people who had been showered with sleet. He remembered the way they had looked, the expression on their faces, or as much of their faces as was left. It had not been a pleasant sight. There had been a lot of that at first, in the early days before the transfer to undersurface was complete.

If you should set a thief to catch a thief, what does it take to stop a racketeer...?

There has always been, and will always be, the problem of surviving the experience that any trained expert can handle. when there hasn't been any first survivor to be an expert! When no one has ever gotten back to explain what happened....

They are the aliens among us--and their ways and wonders are stranger than extraterrestrials!

Being a minor mage and a constable in one of the most difficult zones on the planet means I see a lot. There are no other mages with the constables so I get called for many cases. Sometimes to recreate a crime and others to help with surveillance. Just being a constable on the King's Walk is dangerous. Being a mage constable means everyone knows me and I am always a target for those that hunt us.

Jason started out as a farm boy and ends up owning a fleet of spaceships. This is his story.

High into air are the great New York buildings lifted by a ray whose source no telescope can find.

Ships switching from hyper to normal space had to do it in a micro-second--if the crews were to live. But it would take Brad suicidal minutes!